In a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely believable yet wholly unimpeachable facts and stories from the past twelve months.

Every week for the past four years, Dan, James, Anna and Andy – the creators of the award-winning, chart-topping comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish – have wowed each other and millions of their listeners with the most astonishing trivia they have learned over the previous seven days. Now, once again, they have put down the microphones, picked up their pencils, and transformed a year’s worth of weird and wonderful happenings into one uplifting book that you won’t be able to put down.

Discover how Peruvian mummies affected the World Cup, and why Love Island contestants are experts in game theory – as well as hundreds of stories that may have passed you by entirely, including the news that:

· NASA sent a man with a fear of heights to the International Space Station. · An ice hotel in Canada caught fire. · Mark Zuckerberg’s private data was compromised while he was talking to Congress about compromised data.

From Kim Jong Un’s personal potty to Jeremy Corbyn’s valuable vegetables, The Book of the Year 2018 is an eye-opening tour of yet another incredible year you didn’t know you’d lived through.

"QI is such an institution that even the programme’s researchers are taking over the world. Fully justified that is too, as anyone who’s heard their podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, will confirm. It’s packed with killer facts – and so is this book." (Daily Mail)

"If you love funny facts as much as we love funny facts then you should get your funny fact-loving faces in front of The Book of the Year." (Comedy Central (via @ComedyCentralUK))

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I have been following the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast for about a year and am so thankful I stumbled upon it. It is humorous and very witty. Dan, Andrew, Anna and Jim are very smart and so quick to grab a lead and run with it. I really enjoy adding humor to my day in these troubled times. The book is something I will read more than once. There's a lot to absorb, but it is very entertaining. I highly recommend it to anyone for a good read.

Fabulous! Hilarious! Arguably even useful! Even more material for those of us that can't get enough from the podcast and QI. Like Anna Ptaszynski, has said, this book is full of "amazing things we’d discovered but they weren’t going anywhere" but now they are.